Tetrahedron

Use of hydrolases for the synthesis of cyclic amino acids

…, KE Holt, JP Swift, PA Keene, SJC Taylor, R McCague

Index: Lloyd, Richard C.; Lloyd, Michael C.; Smith, Mark E. B.; Holt, Karen E.; Swift, Jonathan P.; Keene, Philip A.; Taylor, Stephen J. C.; McCague, Raymond Tetrahedron, 2004 , vol. 60, # 3 p. 717 - 728

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Citation Number: 26

Abstract

The synthesis of several cyclic amino acids that have all the necessary structural features to make them ideal scaffolds for use in medicinal chemistry is described. A key step in each synthesis is the use of hydrolase enzymes to define a chiral centre. In order to elaborate these building blocks into more complex molecules, crystallization and asymmetric hydrogenation were used to define further stereocentres.